| Years | Brief Title or Description | Source of Funds |
| 2004-2011 | Optical biosensors | SRU Biosystems |
| 2004-2007 | Photonic crystal biosensors | NSF |
| 2005-2008 | Tunable wavelength laser visor | Army |
| 2005-2010 | Integration of photonic crystal sensors with nanofluid flow channels | NSF Nano-CEMMS Center |
| 2006-2008 | Nanofibrous scaffolds for cartilage engineering | Beckman Institute |
| 2006-2008 | Label-free, high-throughput small molecule screening using photonic crystal technology: Application to the apoptotic pathway | NIH |
| 2006-2009 | Soybean rust biosensor | Soybean Disease Biotechnology Center |
| 2006-2009 | Pioneering bionanosensing systems for use as a decision support tool for soybean rust management | USDA-CSREES |
| 2007 | 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant | 3M |
| 2008-2010 | Photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence | NSF |
| 2008 | Optical nanofilters-based spectroscopic imaging for prostate histopathology | Siteman Center, Grainger Foundation |
| 2009-2011 | Photonic crystal surfaces for label-free detection and fluorescence amplification | NIH |
| 2008-2011 | Micro and nano-mediated 3D cardiac tissue engineering | USAMMRD |
| 2009-2011 | Acquisition of a step-and-flash nanoimprint lithography system | NSF MRI |
| 2010 | Incorporation of quantum dots within plastic photonic crystals for efficiency enhancement | BAE Systems |
| 2010-2013 | In-Line label-free fluid diagnostics using photonic resonators | NSF |
| 2009-2011 | Photonic Crystal Surfaces for Label-Free Detection and Fluorescence Amplification: Application to Protein Microarrays | NIH ARRA |
| 2010-2014 | Development of practical mid-infrared spectroscopic imaging technology for cancer | NIH |
| 2010-2012 | Development of distributed feedback laser biosensor technology as a high resolution biomolecular screening tool | NIH |
| 2010-2015 | High throughput small molecule screening using photonic crystal technology: Application to the apoptotic pathway | NIH-NIGMS |
| 2011-2014 | External cavity laser biosensor for label-free and enhanced fluorescence detection | NSF |
| 2011-2014 | Photonic crystal enhanced microscopy for characterization of cell attachment | NSF |
| 2013-2016 | Multimode smartphone biosensor | NSF |
| 2013-2017 | Photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence: Development of sensors structures and detection instrumentation for multiplexed biomarker detection | NIH-NCI |
| 2012 | SERS nanodomes for drug detection in biomedical tubing | Baxter |
| 2013-2018 | Rapid disease diagnostics using photonic crystal enhanced antigen biomarker microarrays | NIH |
| 2014-2017 | Lab in a smartphone | NSF |
| 2014-2017 | CIF21 DIBBs: T2-C2: Timely and Trusted Curator and Coordinator Data Building Blocks | NSF |
| 2015-2018 | Multiresonator photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence and SERS | NSF |
| 2015-2018 | Label-free interrogation of heterogeneities in HSC fate decision signatures | NIH |
| 2017-2021 | Portable diagnostic for HIV viral load monitoring using photonic crystal biosensors | NIH |
| 2016-2017 | Smartphone Thin Layer Chromatography | Management Sciences for Health |
| 2016-2017 | Personalized multiplexed molecular diagnostics for point of care setting | Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 2016-2017 | Single molecule mRNA detection of prostate cancer biomarkers | Mayo Clinic |
| 2015-2019 | Pathtracker: A smartphone-based system for mobile infectious disease detection and epidemiology | NSF |
| 2011-2016 | Transformative electronic materials | Dow Chemical Company |
| 2011-2016 | NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center: Center for Agricultural, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (CABPN) | NSF |
| 2018-2023 | Daily quantification of cancer-associated exosomal miRNA in patient blood by photonic crystal-enhanced quantum dot emission | NIH-NCI |
| 2018-2020 | A fever diagnostic panel using multiplexed smartphone spectroscopy and a simplified platform for rapid sandwich immunoassay | NIH-NIAID |
| 2019-2023 | Photonic resonator hybrids for ultrasensitive biosensing | NSF |
| 2019-2022 | PFI-TT: Clip-on smartphone biosensor for mobile health | NSF |
| 2019-2022 | Multiplexing Activate Capture + Digital Counting (AC+DC) Assay Technology | Kleinmuntz Center |
| 2019-2023 | Smartphone-linked system for diagnosis and epidemiological reporting of pathogens at the point of care | NIH-NIAID |
| 2020-2021 | A rapid and ultrasensitive technology for sensing intact SARS-CoV-2 using designer DNA nanostructure capture probes and photonic resonator interference scattering microscopy | NSF-RAPID |
| 2020-2024 | Exosome separation and digital resolution detection of blood-based nucleic acid biomarkers for noninvasive therapeutic diagnostics in cancer | NIH-NIBIB/NCI |
| 2020 | A single-step 10-minute point of care COVID-19 diagnostic test using Activate Cleave & Count (ACC) technology | JUMP-ARCHES |
| 2020-2025 | Zhejiang University+Illinois Center for Pathogen Diagnostics | DREMES |
| 2020-2025 | Lateral flow assay for multiplexed detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and antigens in point-of-care settings | NSF |
| 2020-2022 | Detection and automatic privacy-protected contact tracing system designed for COVID-19 | NIH RadxRad |